{"id":44,"date":"2010-01-28T23:00:35","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T23:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinbillington.com\/wordpress\/?p=44"},"modified":"2026-01-26T18:35:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T18:35:18","slug":"livewire-acdc-tribute-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinbillington.com\/site\/?p=44","title":{"rendered":"Livewire AC\/DC Tribute Band"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"320\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rsoM3aXw9JU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I went to see Live Wire who are an AC\/DC tribute act, playing at The Stables in Milton Keynes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>Unlike most AC\/DC tribute acts, they actually have two singers to represent the two distinct eras of AC\/DC. John Belford sings as Bon Scott, AC\/DC\u2019s legendary frontman who died on 19th February 1980. Pete Eccles then takes the reins as Brian Johnson, who took over as frontman after Bons\u2019 death, to cover AC\/DC\u2019s more recent tracks.<!--more--><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>I have to say, seeing as I started listening to AC\/DC at about the age of 14, some six years after Bons\u2019 death, I never had the chance to see Bon sing live. However I think this was the next best thing for me. Although John\u2019s voice wasn\u2019t perfect, I think he did a mighty fine job of it, as did Pete of Brian.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>Lorne Shippen takes up the axe of legendary guitarist Angus Young. Again, his performance isn\u2019t as polished as Angus, but Lorne does a mighty fine job of playing Angus\u2019s licks. He his a fantastic guitarist.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I didn\u2019t think I would like a band trying to be the band I\u2019ve listened to for so many years, but I look forward to seeing them again soon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to see Live Wire who are an AC\/DC tribute act, playing at The &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[16,7,15],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-acdc","tag-gig","tag-livewire"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kevinbillington.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/livewire.jpg?fit=350%2C262&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p45vMv-I","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinbillington.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinbillington.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinbillington.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinbillington.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinbillington.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/kevinbillington.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2008,"href":"https:\/\/kevinbillington.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/2008"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinbillington.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinbillington.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinbillington.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinbillington.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}